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BittWare RFX 880 Ethernet RFSoC Card - Coming Soon

BittWare RFX 880 Ethernet RFSoC Card is a digital direct sampling transceiver featuring the third generation AMD Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC. This innovative solution uses the RFSoC for direct sampling between 50MHz and 6GHz. Card implementation optionally integrates filters and amplification, displacing external devices. The BittWare RFX 880 is designed as a standalone card in PCIe formfactor. Installing the card in a ruggedized chassis allows users to mount the RFX 880 card near the antenna to transform antenna data into packets. The RFX 880 gets all of its power via the external power connector and can be communicated with via an onboard RJ45 connector, negating the need for a PCIe slot. The RFX 880 also works in traditional server PCIe slots.

The AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC integrates RF-class A/D and D/A converters into the Zynq FPGA fabric and multi-core Arm® processor subsystem, creating a multi-channel data conversion/processing solution on a single chip. With 400Gbps of digital I/O available on the FPGA side of the RFSoC, the card supports four times the bandwidth of RFSoC implementations that depend upon PCIe for data transfer. This I/O is available through two QSFP-DD ports. Users can implement transports using Aurora, Ethernet MAC frames, and UDP.

Features

  • AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC
    • XCZU43 in a G1517 package
    • Core speed grade -2
  • Analog
    • 4x 5GSPS 14-bit ADCs
      • Wideband build option provides +0dB to -27dB gain from 50MHz to 6GHz with no filtration
      • 1st Nyquist (L-Band) build option provides +44dB to -29dB on all four channels, constrained between 400MHz and 2.5GHz by filters FL1 and FL2
      • 2nd and 3rd Nyquist filters are also available on amplified channels as a special order
    • 4x 9.7GSPS 14-bit DACs
      • Range of about +3dBm to -24dBm
      • High power end of this range is a function of frequency
      • Constrained by a 4.8GHz LPF
    • Programmable clocks
    • External reference and triggers
    • Push-on SMPM connectors with optional SMA pigtails
  • Onboard flash
    • PS connects to a pair of 2Gb QSPI parts configured in “Dual Parallel” mode, the PS boots from the QSPI to configure itself, then pulls the logic bitstream from the QSPI and configures the PL
    • 32GB eMMC for Arm disk
  • External memory
    • 16GB, 64-bit DDR4-2400 processing system with ECC
    • 32GB, 2x banks 64-bit DDR4-2666 programmable logic with ECC
  • External digital interfaces
    • Processing system
      • 4x PCIe Gen2
      • Dual RJ45 Ethernet, one on the front panel, second inside the chassis
      • Single USB for UART and JTAG, dual connectors, one on the front panel, second inside the chassis
    • Programmable logic
      • Up to 400Gb/s available via front panel 2x QSFP-DD
      • AMD Hard IP support for dual 100GbE
  • Double-width passive heatsink for cooling
  • Onboard power derived from 6-pin AUX connector
  • Power dissipation is application-dependent
  • 50W (typical) maximum power consumption
  • Designed to operate between +5°C and +40°C chassis air inlet temperature, noncondensing (air temperature inside the chassis between +5°C and +60°C)
  • Form factor
    • 3/4-length, standard-height PCIe dual-slot card (x16 mechanical)
    • Supports standalone operation
    • BittWare’s WaveBox Pi chassis was specifically designed to house RFX 880 cards
  • Manufactured to IPC-A-610 Class 2
  • RoHS compliant
  • CE, FCC, UKCA, and ICES approvals
  • One-year hardware warranty

Applications

  • Satellite communications (Satcom)
  • Test and measurement
  • Wireless communication
  • Radar systems
  • Electronic warfare

Overview

Mechanical Drawing - BittWare RFX 880 Ethernet RFSoC Card
Publicado: 2025-04-07 | Actualizado: 2025-04-15